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OET (OET-LV) And the manager said by himself:
What may_I_do, because the master of_me is_taking_away the management from me?
I_am_ not _able To_be_digging, I_am_being_ashamed to_be_begging.
OET (OET-RV) Then the manager thought to himself, ‘Oh dear, what will I do now that I’m losing this management job? I’m not strong enough to be out digging and I’d be too ashamed to beg.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
εἶπεν & ἐν ἑαυτῷ & τί ποιήσω, ὅτι ὁ κύριός μου ἀφαιρεῖται τὴν οἰκονομίαν ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ? σκάπτειν οὐκ ἰσχύω; ἐπαιτεῖν αἰσχύνομαι
said & by himself & what ˱I˲_/may/_do because the master ˱of˲_me /is/_taking_away the management from me /to_be/_digging not ˱I˲_/am/_able /to_be/_begging ˱I˲_/am/_being_ashamed
If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: “asked himself what he should do, since his master was taking the management job away from him. He realized that he was not strong enough to dig ditches, and that he would be ashamed to beg for money”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ὁ κύριός μου
the the master ˱of˲_me
The expression my master refers to the rich man. The manager was not a slave, although he was financially dependent on the rich man for his housing, food, etc. Alternate translation: “my employer”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
σκάπτειν οὐκ ἰσχύω
/to_be/_digging not ˱I˲_/am/_able
The manager is saying that he is not strong enough to work all day digging ditches in the ground. He is likely using this one kind of manual work to represent all work that would require sustained physical exertion. Alternate translation: “I am not strong enough to do manual labor”
16:3 I’m too proud to beg: The Jewish wisdom writer Sirach said, “It is better to die than to beg” (Sirach 40:28), a reflection of Jewish attitudes.
OET (OET-LV) And the manager said by himself:
What may_I_do, because the master of_me is_taking_away the management from me?
I_am_ not _able To_be_digging, I_am_being_ashamed to_be_begging.
OET (OET-RV) Then the manager thought to himself, ‘Oh dear, what will I do now that I’m losing this management job? I’m not strong enough to be out digging and I’d be too ashamed to beg.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.